A selection of my latest work and ramblings. All photographs and other images in this blog are copyright and cannot be reproduced without my written permission and consent. You can purchase many of my works on my Pixels.com Shop. Please use the contact link below or the contact link on my website if you would like to make an enquiry regarding my work. "Painterly": relating to or characteristic of painting or painters. I have several online exhibitions and have published three books of my work.

Quotes from the dark Page

My collaborations with the very talented writer and poet Yvonne White.

‘Nature’s Canvas’

Rushing blues, glimmering gold casting a spell on me I’m in a living dreamscape
walking the path of angels in reality
The sky, she sings
the water painting in the shades of jewels
and I am but a witness
as Nature casts her magic with these tools
And in this moment, when color collapses my fears
I can feel the air filling my chest
with the perfume of Life melted in the air
I sit before Nature’s canvas, at her best

She was built for starlight all glitter, glow, and fire She had the heart of a lion
and passion that would never tire
With a mind as sharp as any blade
and a tongue to match
She could tangle a man’s soul with a smile
their hearts, in her delicate hands, she’d catch

Always saying she’d never be tamed always promising she’d go her own way yet Life is a funny and fickle thing because it listens to the things we say It was a moment out of the blue the thing that caged her heart and like a tamed beast, she gave in never thinking she could fall apart

But like any promise that’s ever made all the things he said where just lies and while her heart was caged within his gaze her very soul started to die The night he left was like any other to the world around her, all was the same but in her cage, her heart stopped it’s beat and her soul’s raging fire became but a flame

She is built for shadows now all ghost, shadow, and ghoul there is nothing left of the queen she was she’s no longer royalty, but the joker, the fool Her heart is still encased, to this day in the very cage he entrapped it in but its still, its quiet, it never truly beats her out of the blue romance was an end … … that never should have been

Soft blushes of color flood through the fields changing with the wind as broken hearts they heal With every whisper between fluttering petals a whole new world of delights shifts and settles Soaking up the light bathing the land in sweet scents we are reminded of the beauty as velvet fairies shimmer in decent

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Leigh Kemp BSc. Hons

Welcome to my blog. I work in a variety of techniques and styles including landscapes, riverscapes, abstract and surreal. I hope that you find my work appealing and of interest. I take photographs because I really enjoy photography. I endeavour to create digital art because I LOVE art.

My fascination with computer graphics began about 35 years ago with some software that I got on a free floppy disk on the cover of a computer magazine and ever since then I’ve been hooked. I’ve come a long way since then, the software that I use is now much more sophisticated but my enjoyment hasn’t in any way diminished. I got my first camera at the age of 9, a battered old twin-lens reflex camera which my grandfather “loaned” to me and my first serious camera, a 35 mm film camera, in my late teens.

For me there are only a few things that are of prime importance in a camera and lenses. They have to be small, light, well built, reliable and take well exposed and sharp images. The thing that I most enjoy about photography is finding subjects/locations and imagining how they might look when I’ve had a chance to work with my images. So there’s a sort of feedback loop already going on in my head when I’m looking around and taking pictures.

What the camera sees is one thing what my mind’s eye sees is another thing entirely. What I’m always searching for in a scene are aspects such as perspective, textures, compositional elements and lighting etc. and well beyond that how I can work with these when I’ve downloaded my images which brings me on to processing (hate the term), for me, by far the most important and exciting part.

A while back I stumbled across the perfect description for my type of work “Paintography” some years after I stumbled into it completely unaware that there was such a thing. I guess this is where the photographer in me stops and my artistic side takes full-rein if indeed one can separate one from the other. Put simply, this is the point where I have complete artistic freedom to explore and mix different techniques and open the lid on a Pandora’s box of artistic possibilities, such a large box that even after some years I’m very much still discovering and experimenting with new things.

Please contact me if you have an enquiry about my work or would like to discuss a commission.

New book: 2018 Collection

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

Steve Jobs

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